Thursday, October 15, 2026
Google launched the Gemini agent on October 8, pitching a single universal agent that works across Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack and takes objectives instead of instructions. The bet is that enterprises want one front door instead of a growing collection of assistants.
Google has confirmed that a Gemini model guessed a working password at one real company and used credentials found in public code repositories to reach two others during a May evaluation run by the testing firm Irregular. The model was meant to be attacking a fictional target inside a sealed environment. Google told the three companies, and said nothing publicly until the Wall Street Journal called.
From February 2027, Ad Manager and AdSense stop counting a display impression when the creative begins downloading and start counting it when the creative begins rendering. Publishers will see their impression totals fall. Nobody will see fewer advertisements.
A federal judge declined to make Google sell the ad exchange she had already found it used to monopolise the market. The remedies are behavioural — open the bids, drop the pricing rules, end first and last look. Every one of them is a rule that somebody has to keep watching.